Author: Marc van Hal
Date: 08:54:26 01/06/03
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On January 05, 2003 at 21:47:35, Christophe Theron wrote: >On January 04, 2003 at 06:04:59, Tapio Huuhka wrote: > >>There seems to be RHIDE for Linux available at http://www.rhide.com/ /downloads. >>Built with SuSE 7.2. If that doesn't work with Redhat why not switch to SuSE or >>Debian? >> >>Tapio > > > >RedHat has the biggest market share. > >Some unification MUST happen in Linux distros. It is Sci-Fi to believe that you >can just release a program as source code and people just need to recompile it >with their distros to make it work. > >It simply does not work. For a zillion of reasons I don't want to explain here. > >I hate to download a i386.rpm that has not been designed for my distro, try to >make it work and finally fail because of minor details (missing libs, different >config files and so on). > >For a program to work, it must be tested and debugged under several specific >versions of an OS. Then you can be sure that it works fine under these versions >(read: distros) and people who will download it can be sure (or almost) that it >will work as long as it has been certified for the distro they are using. > >My intention is to release a version of Chess Tiger for Linux that will be >tested on a range of distros. Or to release an i386.rpm for each distro that has >been tested. For the other distros, I will simply tell users NOT to use it. > >At first I will only support RedHat and maybe Mandrake. > > > > Christophe Hi Big Duffus
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